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Global personal wealth climbed 10.8% in 2025, the largest annual gain since 2017, according to a new report from UBS.
The surge produced a tangible threshold effect: stock market appreciation alone generated nearly one million new millionaires over the course of the year.
The Scale of the Advance The 10.8% increase is the headline figure buy-side allocators will reach for first.
UBS identified it as the sharpest rise in global personal wealth in eight years — the prior comparable year being 2017, itself a period defined by broad equity gains and synchronized global expansion.
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